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Overview

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6.9/10   480 votes
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Director:
Joseph Losey
Writers:
Evan Jones (screenplay)
H.L. Lawrence (novel)
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Release Date:
7 July 1965 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Come At Your Own Risk ... If You Come Alone! more
Plot:
Legal and illegal criminality. An American tourist with a boat is robbed by a gang of teenager boys... more | full synopsis
NewsDesk:
Lots of NYC-area horror screenings for Halloween & beyond
 (From Fangoria. 31 October 2008, 11:02 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
Restored print is Damned nice to see more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Macdonald Carey ... Simon Wells
Shirley Anne Field ... Joan
Viveca Lindfors ... Freya Neilson
Alexander Knox ... Bernard

Oliver Reed ... King
Walter Gotell ... Major Holland
James Villiers ... Captain Gregory
Tom Kempinski ... Ted (as Thomas Kempinski)
Kenneth Cope ... Sid
Brian Oulton ... Mr. Dingle
Barbara Everest ... Miss Lamont
Allan McClelland ... Mr. Stuart (as Alan McClelland)
James Maxwell ... Mr. Talbot
Rachel Clay ... Victoria
Caroline Sheldon ... Elizabeth
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
These Are the Damned (USA)
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Runtime:
87 min | 96 min (director's cut)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
UK:12 (VHS rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Freya Neilson: A public servant is the only servant who has secrets from his master. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "The World of Hammer: Sci-Fi (#1.7)" (1994) more

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19 out of 20 people found the following comment useful:-
Restored print is Damned nice to see, 3 March 2002
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Author: Joe Stemme (gortx) from United States

(THESE ARE) THE DAMNED is now being seen in the U.S. in a restored print that has been making the rounds (I caught up with it at the 27th Annual Boston Science Fiction Film Marathon & Festival (for info go to: www.sf.theboard.net) on February 17th.

After having seen it only in edited form on late night TV decades ago, it was fascinating to see the exquisite B&W photography on the big screen (with footage not in the TV prints). Although it was made under the Hammer Films banner, THE DAMNED is not a typical SF picture by any means. Expatriate director Joseph Losey set out to make a social parable more than an SF thriller. He succeeds in showing how society's increasing violence and callousness on the streets could lead to the horrible thought of "breeding" radioactive children in the government in order to survive an inevitable (?) nuclear war. The moral is both, of the time & time-less. Of course, modern audiences may feel that the end of the Cold War makes such a tale outdated and even silly - but are we only fooling ourselves?

"Black Leather, Black Leather....."

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